Frederick Douglass: “What in the tone of southern sentiment had been fierce before became furious and uncontrollable now.”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.